‘The Church must ask for forgiveness and accept the shame of the abuse of minors’

He Pope Francis has urged the Church to adopt this “shame and humiliation” what constitutes sexual attacks on minors by church leaders. “We just have to apologize,” he added.

‘Today this crime exists in the Church itself, and in the Church you should be ashamed and ask for forgiveness and try to resolve this situation with Christian humility, and do everything so that it does not happen again. If an abuse is shameful enough, the Church must ask forgiveness for it. This is our shame and our humiliation,” the pope said in his first speech at the Castle of Laeken, the residence of the Belgian royal family, which he visited on his first official day in Belgium.

However, he stressed that sexual attacks on minors by priests “are a plague on the Church is faced with determination and determinationlistening to and guiding the injured and launching a capillary prevention program around the world.

Francisco also referred to the case of his loved ones 30,000 babies taken from their real families between 1945 and 1980 with the complicity of the Catholic Church, a scandal that came to light in 2015.

“Often the family and other social actors, including the Church, thought that in order to eradicate the negative stigma that unfortunately affected the single mother at that time, it was preferable for the well-being of both mother and child that the child be there was adopted. There were even cases where some women were not given the choice to keep the child or give it up for adoption,” he added outside the speech he had prepared.